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Pitted first against a Cornell crew that defeated the Crimson earlier in the season, Coach Harvey Love's boat lost by a length and a half. Cornell in turn was barely edged out by Navy, which won the 2000-meter heat in 6 min. 37.7 sec., fastest time...
...four among the states (see map) are still New York (up 12% but due to lose three Congressmen because the increase does not match the national average), Pennsylvania (up 7%, due to lose three), California (up 47%, due to gain eight) and Illinois (up 15%, due to lose one). Fastest-growing Florida (up 77%) jumped from 20th to tenth state to win four new House seats...
After a month of occasional running in the U.S., Australia's shaggy-maned Herb Elliott, 22, world's fastest miler (3:54.5), flew back Down Under and got his first haircut since he had left. It cost him 56? for a "back and sides" job in a Syd ney barbershop. Explained economy-minded Elliott: "Why pay $2 in the States for a five-bob haircut...
Into Denver's mile-high sunshine last week stepped the fastest-growing newspaper publisher in the U.S. In one hand he carried a battered 13-year-old briefcase bulging with the blueprints of a big deal. Within 24 hours Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse, 65, left Denver with what he had come for: a 15% cut of the Denver Post (circ. 256,513), plus definite expectations of ultimately gaining full control...
...most prodigious ever. Steve Clark, a 16-year-old Los Altos, Calif. high school junior with a skintight crewcut and an adolescent's gangling frame of 5 ft. 11 in., 147 Ibs., flashed through the 100-meter free style in 55.7 sec. to better by .1 sec. the fastest time any American ever swam the distance...